Traffic Surveillance as Entertainment and Activism
Cameras on dashboards, helmets, and on mobiles have made traffic zones some of the most surveilled areas in society.
Thomas Wold will typologize some functions peer-to-peer surveillance in traffic might be serving in the future. He anticipates that more cameras will fill the roads, both from the state, from private companies and private citizens. How might the ubiquitous release of surveillance clips to the media affect traffic safety, and how we behave in the traffic? When it comes to the peer to peer surveillance in traffic, we can only anticipate the future effects on people’s behavior.
Thomas Wold is an Associate Professor at the Nord University in Norway. From 2017-2020 he was a post-doctoral researcher on the ViSmedia project at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen.
Thomas Wold
Nord University, Norway